Green Bean Casserole with Bacon

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Green Bean Casserole with Bacon is the BEST holiday side dish recipe! Onion cream sauce is tossed with lightly blanched fresh green beans, and topped with crunchy fried onions, and crispy bacon. The perfect holiday side, your family has never tasted green bean casserole like this before!

Green Bean Casserole with Bacon Ingredients

To make this green bean side dish recipe, you will need the following ingredients (see the recipe card below for exact amounts):

• Fresh green beans
• Bacon
• Crispy fried onions
• Garlic
• Yellow onion
• Salted butter
• All purpose flour
• Low sodium chicken broth or stock
• Whole milk: You can substitute the whole milk for 2% or half & half.
• Heavy cream
• Kosher salt & freshly cracked black pepper

How to Make Bacon Green Bean Casserole 

1. Preheat oven to 350℉. Fill a large bowl with ice water. Grease a 9×13” baking dish.
2. Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a rolling boil. Blanch green beans in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, until they turn bright green. Immediately scoop out beans and plunge into ice water to shock them and stop the cooking process. Once cooled, drain and set aside.
3. In a large saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add onions and garlic, cook until onions are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. If they start to brown, turn the heat down to medium low.
4. Add in flour and cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly with a whisk, until flour just begins to brown, about 1 to 2 minutes.
5. Whisk in stock slowly until smooth. Whisk in milk, and finally heavy cream. Taste and add salt and plenty of black pepper. The mixture should be the consistency of canned cream of chicken soup, if it’s too thick, add chicken broth until mixture is smooth and creamy.
6. Add green beans to baking dish. Top with the cream mixture, stir in gently. Top with chopped bacon and crispy fried onions. Cover loosely with foil.
7. Bake for 30 minutes covered. Remove foil and bake another 10 minutes or until bubbly. Serve hot.

Can I Add Mushrooms?

To add mushrooms, saute 2 cups of sliced crimini mushrooms in 2 tablespoons of butter, remove from the pan, and proceed with step 3. Add mushrooms to the onion and cream mixture just before adding to the green beans.

What if My Sauce is Too Liquidy?

If your cream sauce is too liquidy, vigorously whisk 1 tablespoon flour with just enough milk to dissolve it. Pour it into the boiling cream sauce while whisking.

Recipe Variations

Try customizing your casserole with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese or panko bread crumbs under the crispy fried onions.

How Do I Cook the Bacon?

Line a large rimmed baking sheet with foil. Lay bacon in one layer on foil. Place bacon in a cold oven, turn oven on to 350℉. Cook for about 30 minutes, flipping bacon once halfway through. Thinly sliced bacon may take just 20 minutes. Drain and blot bacon on paper towel.

More Holiday Side Dish Recipes

Sweet Potato Casserole
Squash Casserole
Green Beans Almondine
Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Loaded Baked Potato Casserole
Cranberry Orange Fluff Salad
Honey Roasted Carrots and Parsnips

Green Bean Casserole with Bacon

Author: Emily Pecoraro

Green Bean Casserole with Bacon is the BEST holiday side dish recipe! Onion cream sauce is tossed with lightly blanched fresh green beans, and topped with crunchy fried onions, and crispy bacon.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 40 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Side Dishes

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Calories 334 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 2 pounds fresh green beans trimmed and snapped in half
• ▢ 6 strips cooked bacon chopped
• ▢ 3.5 ounce bag crispy fried onions
• ▢ 3 cloves garlic minced
• ▢ 1 medium yellow onion thinly sliced
• ▢ 6 Tablespoon salted butter
• ▢ ½ cup all purpose flour
• ▢ 1 cup low sodium chicken broth or stock
• ▢ 1 ½ cups whole milk
• ▢ ½ cup heavy cream
• ▢ Kosher salt & freshly cracked black pepper to taste

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350℉. Fill a large bowl with ice water. Grease a 9×13” baking dish.
• Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a rolling boil. Blanch green beans in boiling water for 2-3 minutes, until they turn bright green. Immediately scoop out beans and plunge into ice water to shock them and stop the cooking process. Once cooled, drain and set aside.
• In a large saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add onions and garlic, cook until onions are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. If they start to brown, turn the heat down to medium low.
• Add in flour and cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly with a whisk, until flour just begins to brown, about 1 to 2 minutes.
• Whisk in stock slowly until smooth. Whisk in milk, and finally heavy cream. Taste and add salt and plenty of black pepper. The mixture should be the consistency of canned cream of chicken soup, if it’s too thick, add chicken broth until mixture is smooth and creamy.
• Add green beans to baking dish. Top with the cream mixture, stir in gently. Top with chopped bacon and crispy fried onions. Cover loosely with foil.
• Bake for 30 minutes covered. Remove foil and bake another 10 minutes or until bubbly. Serve hot.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Calories: 334kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 8gFat: 24gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0.4gCholesterol: 51mgSodium: 310mgPotassium: 413mgFiber: 4gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 1340IUVitamin C: 15mgCalcium: 119mgIron: 2mg

The nutrition information is calculated using online nutrition calculators and may not be accurate. It is provided as a general guide only.

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